Gingin Getaway

Freya, Sophie, Sofie, Libby, Max and Luc

Was just going through some photos on my phone and realised I never put any photos on the blog from our "school holiday getaway to Gingin"!! Back in April, we went to a friends farm for a couple of days and fun was had by all!! Gingin is only a 45 minute drive from our house, yet we felt like we were far, far away!!
3 mums and 6 kids and we spent the day exploring the paddocks and talking to the cows!!  The kids named all the cows and seemed to know "who was who". We made a big picnic lunch and then went out into a paddock and had a picnic with the cows!

Picnic lunch

Farmer Luc off for some exploring

The kids all chatting on the swing

Max and Luc..."being boys" making pretend guns out of sticks!

Luc and Max hanging out on the swing

time to go back home!  A stop off for a milkshake in town before we left!

Cross Country Carnival

Sophie and Luc had their school cross country races last Wednesday! It was Luc's first time and he had to run 750 m!!! He had a rough start and was accidently knocked over at the starting line and had to pick himself up, dust himself off and then run! He ran like the wind and soon caught up with the other 29 racers, overtaking them all! He placed third!!! A fantastic effort and he was so proud of himself!!!  He received a medal and wore it everywhere.... Even to bed where he continued to admire it before falling asleep!   Sophie had to run 1.75 km and she was not too thrilled about it!  As she states " running is really not my thing"!!!  Though proud of her efforts as well she placed 14 th out of 26.

Onesies!!!

Sophie and Luc have been bugging me for ages to but them "onesies".... All in one pajamas for those that dont know!!! It's certainly got cold out there lately so they love being all snuggled up in their "onesies"!!!

Coral Bay holiday!!

A few weeks ago we went to Coral Bay , a 2 hr flight north of Perth..(or by car its a 16 hr drive, but we flew... Thank goodness!) Coral Bay is a tiny "1 street town" home to the amazing Ningaloo Reef. We stayed a week and spent everyday at the beach snorkelling and viewing amazing coral and sea creatures. Swimming with turtles for Sophie and Denis as well as seeing reef sharks was also a highlight!!  Sophie and Luc were great little snorkellers! 

Yum yum... BBQ spicy squid with Vietnamese salad... Sophie has become an adventurous eater!!

We went out on a catermaran for a whole day and fit in 3 snorkelling trips... The water was incredibly warm!

Sophie and I

On the back of the catermaran in the net!

Chilling and chatting in the pool after a big day snorkelling!!

Denis and Sophie in the net!!

Luc as i am taking the photo: mum: "is it okay if I wee in here"????

Happy kids!

On the catermaran!

Beach fun

Exhausted after a huge snorkel! Nap on the catermaran!

Denis and Sophie

Luc getting on the net... Glad no one fell off, would've taken a bit of effort to turn the catermaran around!

Relaxing!

More relaxing!

Looking for fish!

Here they come.... Goldband snapper practically jumping on to the boat!

Colouring in time...

Denis and I

Snappers are snapping!

Hello Dude... Turtle swimming by!

Snorkelling time..a good time was had by all! Coral Bay, we will be back for sure!!!

Four eyes!!

Luc with his cute "harry potter glasses"!! 6.5 yrs old, growing up so fast! So funny and caring, a great kid!!!

Sophie goes on school camp...

Our little 10 year old Sophie went on her first school camp a couple of weeks ago to Point Peron.  There was much anticipated excitement for this inaugural camping trip as previous years had declared it "the highlight of their years at primary school"!!!  4 days and 3 nights aways from any contact with her was also indeed challenging for us parents left at home...(in the much quieter home I might add!!)
(Above: quick photo of Sophie and I the morning she left!)

A hug for Luc....

and this reaction from Sadie the "wonder pup"....."if I look all cute like this, will you stay??"

How bout this cute look...I think it's my best side!!

Anyhow, the 4 days and 3 night were "jam packed" full of fun and activities.  On the way to Point Peron they toured around the Fremantle Jail and were told scary stories...(great!!) Arriving at camp they hurriedly chose their bunk beds and got settled before a play and dinner followed by a quiz night.

The next day they had a ropes course, raft building, swimming, canoeing and then visit to Penguin Island on a ferry.
That night after a dinner of chicken, vegetable and mashed potato they all settle down (all 60 kids) to watch a movie.

Day 3 was bike riding and numerous games and a fun "Pajama themed" disco to end the night.

So a very action packed time and all the kids came back to school very tired but happy.

Sophie took a camera and below are some of the photos she took.  We had a laugh that most of the photos were"selfies"  of herself and her friends being silly and the other 50 or so were of the disco and all you can see is black with a few bright lights flickering....

on the bus...excited!!

the duck face!

the happy face

the "do you want to see up my nose face"

sunglasses shot!

Playground at camp...

cute little penguins at penguin Island

Happy Feet's

watching the penguins

Dolphins swimming right at the beach, so close to them

Dolphins

yep...lots of pictures like this

who takes pictures of their feet??

All in all though a great experience for her and she didn't miss us at all...(yeah right)!!!!